A week in Naxos

Panos at Bluefin Divers in Agios Prokopios was quite clear that although Jamie as eligible at 10, he found that 12 year olds were better suited to the Open Water course but he would give her a trial day.

Due to complications with weather and berths, Alex and I took Jamie to her course and left Chris moving the boat and helping other boats to get settled for some impending high winds.

Jamie’s instructor for the week was Nassos and she really “lucked out”. Nassos is an experienced instructor, willing to take time, good with the psychology of diving and incredibly thorough. The days were structured with theory in the classroom in the morning, a break, a dive and a video consolidating the theory.

Jamie had no trouble with the theory, handled the first shore dive and exercises well and was welcomed back to complete the five day course.

So the week was given over to attending the course and sorting out some boat issues – largely our windlass which had broken beyond repair and needed replacing.

Poor Alex didn’t have such a great time that week – the wind had blown up to 20-25 knots in the harbour which took a lot of Chris’s time and attention. He did, however, get to ride on a quad bike and a scooter, go to a water park and play on the beach at Ag Prokopios while Jamie was "at school".

Picture: Jamie's first shore dive with Nassos